Linux-Misc Digest #142, Volume #25 Sun, 16 Jul 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: problem installing kppp 1.6.25 ("L. Friedman")
Re: How to get pop3 Mail in 'pine'? (Roger Blake)
Re: PHOTOPAINT INSTALL FAILTURE (Dave Brown)
ddate command ("News Groups")
Re: Using Exceed 6.2 the System Menu is missing (Rob Ratcliff)
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 (Bob Niederman)
Saving scrollback buffer to file? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: ddate command (Hal Burgiss)
Re: ddate command ("Lord Apophis")
Re: HELP with install... (Brett Castleberry)
Re: How to setup dialup account in Corel Linux?? (James E. Paschal, Sr.)
Re: NIC installation woes... (Krzys Majewski)
Scriptable job control? (Krzys Majewski)
Re: numerical computations under Linux (Erik de Castro Lopo)
programming tools and techniques ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mgetty and dial in (Wolfgang Fritz)
How to uninstall in Linux ("t.n")
X apps crashed alot ("tvn")
98 and Linux (Ron Nicholls)
Re: Starting X @ boot? ("Comanche")
Re: 98 and Linux ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: X apps crashed alot ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Creating a newsgroup server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: wine: ChessMaster 6000 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is winipcfg in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: problem installing kppp 1.6.25
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:46:58 -0400
Install what its telling you that you lack, the X-includes.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i wanted to install kppp 1.6.25 since i have a new kernel (2.2.16).
> however, i have the following problem about X includes during the
> configure.
> what should i do?
> thanks
>
> [root@chosun kppp-1.6.25]# pwd
> /opt/kde/kppp-1.6.25
> [root@chosun kppp-1.6.25]# ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> <snip>
> found msgfmt program is not GNU msgfmt; ignore it
> checking for xgettext... :
> checking for socket in -lsocket... no
> checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
> your installation and add the correct paths!
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The alt.os.linux.caldera FAQ:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
Step-by-step help for COL problems:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
11:45pm up 6 min, 0 users, load average: 0.51, 0.36, 0.16
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: How to get pop3 Mail in 'pine'?
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 03:58:50 GMT
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:33:22 GMT, Timothy J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A lot of newbies seem to believe that "thuh web" is the entire Internet.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: PHOTOPAINT INSTALL FAILTURE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Jul 2000 00:14:50 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juergen Leeb wrote:
>I tried to install Corel Photopaint for linux on my Suse 6.4 system.
>The installion procedure works fine.
>But at the first start, when wine is should be set up i get following
>error message:
>
>err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0
>addr
>
>Does somebody know how to solve this problem?
I'd like to know, too. And I've seen several other posts from folks who
have encountered the same problem. (On RedHat 6.2).
It makes me wonder if Corel Linux "experts" are forbidden to read Linux
newsgroups... or if they can't figure it out either. (Perhaps there
are no Corel Linux "experts", or maybe they were laid-off in the recent
cutbacks.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
------------------------------
From: "News Groups" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ddate command
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:00:40 +1000
Hi, i am new to linux and am learning it at school and one of the other
students there told me to type ddate. up comes this message with stuff like
pungenday and boomtime etc.
i am running linux (redhat) 5.1, sorry thats all the details i know. it is
using x windows aswell.
can someone tell me what this all means?
thankyou for your time
Lord Apophis
------------------------------
From: Rob Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Using Exceed 6.2 the System Menu is missing
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:45:00 GMT
Hi Owen,
I've been trying to get Exceed working with Linux off and on for the
last two weeks.
It seems alot of people have trouble getting Exceed to work in single
window mode
with Linux and its xdmcp setup. Do you have any other pointers? I'm using
kdm right now. I've
been trying to muck with the xdm files and such but haven't had much luck.
I'm using v 5.1 of Exceed and have tried it on Redhat 6.2, 6.0 and
Mandrake 7.1 from Windows 2k.
Thanks,
Rob
Owen wrote:
> I'm using Redhat 6.2, Exceed 6.2 on a Win2k machine
>
> I have a completely default Redhat 6.2 install. The only thing that
> I've have changed after the installed was the gdf.conf file to add
> support for XDMCP. I changed one line to Enable=1.
>
> I have a fresh install of Win2k and Exceed 6.2 I have set Exceed 6.2
> to do a XDMCP-query to the IP address of my Redhat 6.2 machine.
>
> I can connect to the linux box, I get the gui coming up, I can log in
> etc. Basically everything is working fine. My problem is that when I
> log out of Xwindows, on the log out screen, I don't get any of the
> options, ie shutdown, restart, etc. just an OK and cancle button. I
> also noticed that these are missing from the main login screen (under
> the system pulldown menu). If I'm actually on the Redhat machine, and
> log in, I get all of these options. It's only when I'm connecting from
> my Win2k machine that things are screwing up.
>
> Why are these missing. I don't think it's Exceed, because this happens
> with all the X servers that I've tried. What do I have to change to
> make these options appear.
>
> Any help would be appreciated....thanks
>
> Owen
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Bob Niederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:46:51 -0500
Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a new kernel to enable some of my hardware components.
> If someone wants to check what's wrong with my 2.2.14 kernel,
This won't help, but you should go to 2.2.16, due to serious security
bug in 2.2.15 and lower.
--
- Bob Niederman http://bob-n.com
Fight UCITA! http://www.4cite.org, http://bob-n.com/ucita
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Saving scrollback buffer to file?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:46:59 GMT
Is there anyway to save a terminal's (eg. rxvt) scrollback buffer to a
text file? I am interested in the buffer that scrolls with shift-pageX,
not command history.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ddate command
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:51:33 GMT
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:00:40 +1000, News Groups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, i am new to linux and am learning it at school and one of the other
>students there told me to type ddate. up comes this message with stuff like
>pungenday and boomtime etc.
>
>i am running linux (redhat) 5.1, sorry thats all the details i know. it is
>using x windows aswell.
>
>can someone tell me what this all means?
>
>thankyou for your time
>Lord Apophis
Lord -- see the man page. 'man ddate'
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
------------------------------
From: "Lord Apophis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ddate command
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:07:24 +1000
oh and man ddate does not work on the comps at school
"News Groups" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, i am new to linux and am learning it at school and one of the other
> students there told me to type ddate. up comes this message with stuff
like
> pungenday and boomtime etc.
>
> i am running linux (redhat) 5.1, sorry thats all the details i know. it is
> using x windows aswell.
>
> can someone tell me what this all means?
>
> thankyou for your time
> Lord Apophis
>
>
------------------------------
From: Brett Castleberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setu,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP with install...
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:48:24 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jérôme Meyer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will install on my PC both Linux(Suse6.4) and Windows98 with the size
> ~10GB for Windows and ~15GB for Linux. I've just few question about the
> installation:
> - What I should install first Windows or Linux (easy way)?
> - I cannot understand how we can choose (on starting) Windows or Linux.
> Because Linux use the LILO boot system and not windows. How could I
> configure this features?
No one has answered you, so I, though I am not an expert, will try. You
should install Windows first, and then, using fdisk, Partition Magic or
another program create a partition or at least create empty space for
Linux. This is because if you install Linux first, Windows will overwrite
LILO and you won't be able to boot Linux except with a boot floppy. I
have not used Suse, but it is supposed to be an excellent distribution. I
expect that it will let you choose whether you wish to boot Windows or
Linux by default. You may want to do some reading about creating a
partition for Linux. This is the big problem for many people. After you
have done this, Suse will should you what to do when you run it. Linux
Installation and Getting Started is the document you want to read from the
LInux Documentation Project, or if you can get "Running Linux," by Matt
Welsh, et alii, all the better. If you have questions, e-mail me and I
will try to anwer them.
Brett Castleberry
Tallahassee, Florida
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James E. Paschal, Sr.)
Subject: Re: How to setup dialup account in Corel Linux??
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 07:18:58 GMT
I'm not sure! In researching the problem the solution noted in
previous post was recommended in several threads. The original file
just needs to be re-written by the system I assume. After three days
of frustration and finally finding the instructions it worked the
first time for me. If all of Corels releases are like this none of
them will work with the first time use of KPPP.
YVT,
Ernie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:29:31 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>James E. Paschal writes:
>> Here's what solved my problem::
>
>> Corel's original /etc/ppp/options file does not work out of the "box".
>
>What do you think is worng with it?
>--
>John Hasler
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Dancing Horse Hill
>Elmwood, Wisconsin
------------------------------
From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: NIC installation woes...
Date: 16 Jul 2000 00:23:38 -0700
Maybe you have something like an IRQ conflict.
Are these things compiled as modules? If so it should be pretty easy
to make them use different IRQs. If they're not plug-and-play,
you should be able to edit a file like /etc/modutils/options or
/etc/modules.conf, passing options like irq=5 to the module name.
If you have modutils you'll have to run update-modules.
If they are PnP you'll probably have to look into isapnp and then
do something similar.
In any case the files /proc/interrupts, /proc/dma, /proc/ioports might give
some hints. -chris
------------------------------
From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scriptable job control?
Date: 16 Jul 2000 00:34:19 -0700
Here's a problem that might make no sense.
I've got a shell script that pops up an xterm that runs a program
(mpg123). I'd like this program to be suspendable (if I type Ctrl-z it
should pause, and then restart when I type fg). Is there a way to
get job control in a script, or is this by definition impossible?
Or do I have to implement my own job control, and if so can I do this
using traps in bash? -chris
------------------------------
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: numerical computations under Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:04:24 +0000
John Mamer wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I recently ported some code to do linear programs from Win.NT /MSC/C++
>
> to Intel Linux/GCC. I noticed a significant slow down. What're the
> best options as far as compilers for numerical computing in C under
> Linux (floating point, matrix operations)?
If you are using doubles prcesion floating point you should use
-malign-double.
I usually use:
-O4 -march=pentium -malign-double -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
Erik
--
+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+-------------------------------------------------+
The mouse has been moved. Windows must be restarted for the change
to take effect. Reboot now?
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.programming
Subject: programming tools and techniques
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:25:03 GMT
I am taking a beginner C language course.
Could you kindly share your experience with me?
Where can information be found about the following topics:
When, why and how to use a debugger?
What is it used for?
When, why and how to use a Make?
What is it used for?
Additionally:
What is a target?
What is build?
What is a makefile?
What is a project file?
Your advise, tips, comments, suggestions are welcome. I look forward to
hearing from you. Thank you.
--
http://www.pucho.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mgetty and dial in
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:13:29 +0200
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "John G. Sandell"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]What does one have to do to get mgetty to answer when a phone rings?
>
> ]I have mgetty enabled in /etc/inittab, ps shows mgetty running on the
> ]proper port (dev/modem, which is linked to /dev/ttyS1), minicom can dial
>
> Don't do this. All of your systems MUST use the same port. You cannot
> have some use /dev/modem, and others ttyS1. Get rid of /dev/modem and
> use ttyS1 for EVERYTHING.
>
Yes. I did that wrong also and had problems with dialout. Mgetty does
NOT die when a dialout is done on /dev/ttyS1 and mgetty is running on
/dev/modem. If /dev/modem is linked to /dev/ttyS1 then mgetty "steals"
incoming characters.
> You have to tell mgetty how many rings to wait to answer, with the
> rings 2
> option under the approprite tty in /etc/mgetty*/mgetty.config file
> (The above says to answer after two rings.
That should not be the problem. If you don't do it, it answers
immediately (after 1 ring), at least my version does it this way.
> Note that unless you start mgetty from inittab, it will die after every
> time something happens-- eg if you dial out with ppp it will listen in
> and not answer and die.
>
You should increase the debug level in mgetty.config to 8 and look at
the logfile. You may send me your logfile via e-mail. Note that the name
of the logfile will be mgetty.ttyS1 if you switch to /dev/ttyS1.
> ]out on ttyS1, my ppp dialer script dials out... mgetty leaves a log file
> ]in /var/log (mgetty.modem), and that file shows mgetty has gotten an OK
> ]from the modem and is waiting for a ring. But it doesn't answer.
>
> ]I have checked all of the docs I can find, also web pages. Some mention
> ]a file named polciy.h; it's not on my computer (SuSE 6.3). Am I missing
> ]a setup file somewhere?
>
> The setup files are in
> /etc/mgetty*
> policy.h is a file used in compiling mgetty, not running it.
Maybe you have disabled logins at all? In this case mgetty will ignore
incoming calls.
If a file nologin.<device> exists in the /etc/mgetty* directory, no
logins are allowed.
Wolfgang
------------------------------
From: "t.n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to uninstall in Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:50:07 -0400
Hi,
what is the common way to uninstall programs in linux ?
------------------------------
From: "tvn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X apps crashed alot
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:49:07 -0400
Many of the apps I ran in KDE crashed ... or freezed, (Netscape
(especially), Aim, Compupic etc etc) at least 3 -4 times / day. Is there a
reason or fix for this symtoms ? These apps don't crash on my other
machine running winnt.
------------------------------
From: Ron Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 98 and Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:04:41 -1000
We , (a friend I convinced to try Linux) have spent sunday afternoom
trying to install win98 and Linux on a new 20 gig Hd.
But it seems that win does not accept Linux fdisk results and vice
versa.
I am sure someone has cracked this , would appreciate some pointers and
lure another away from Win.
--
-
-
Regards
message_ends.
------------------------------
From: "Comanche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Starting X @ boot?
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:58:54 +0200
First you have to check /etc/inittab. Is the initdefault set to 5?
If yes, you can check the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.
In this file the following sentence must be there:
":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X" (without the quotes).
With kind regards,
Comanche
Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:39:15 -0400, Sid Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > My machine boots to a bash prompt in runlevel 5. It used to boot to
> >the RedHat login screen. (6.0 that is). As I sort have mentioned, I can
> >type 'startx' @ the bash prompt and X and Gnome start just as it did
> >from the login screen.
> >
>
> First of all, are you sure it's at runlevel 5? Runlevel 5 is the X11
> runlevel. It sounds like you are at runlevel 3. To check this, do
> this.:
>
> Edit your /etc/inittab file, pico is always a good choice.
> type: pico /etc/inittab
>
> Replace this line:
>
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> With this one:
>
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> Save your changes, and reboot the machine.
>
> Now, if that doesn't work, something else is going on. My main problem
> at first wasn't getting TO boot right into X, it was stopping it FROM
> doing that. I love my command line :-D BTW, Red Hat has a 6.0
> support section, it has alot of good information. If you go to
> support, there is a link to RH6.0 help files.
>
>
> Amy
>
------------------------------
From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 98 and Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 04:51:12 -0500
Rule of thumb...
Install Windoz first. Make sure you use a small partition for the Windows
drive, say only 3 to 6 gig. Later, you can always add yet more windows
logical drives if you use and extended partitioning.
Then once it's all done, installed, tested and working good, then proceed to
install Linux. Make sure the "/boot" partition falls in there as the first
new partition, then swap, then everything else. Should be a maximum of 4
partitions on the drive, unless you create root, and the others in an
"extended" and logical partitioning scheme.
All this is talked about in the installation howto's that are typically
found on most Linux CD's.
Cheers;
Jeff
Ron Nicholls wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>We , (a friend I convinced to try Linux) have spent sunday afternoom
>trying to install win98 and Linux on a new 20 gig Hd.
>
>But it seems that win does not accept Linux fdisk results and vice
>versa.
>
>I am sure someone has cracked this , would appreciate some pointers and
>lure another away from Win.
>
>--
>-
>-
>Regards
>message_ends.
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X apps crashed alot
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 04:52:14 -0500
YOu probably have a borderline properly configed machine, or you have some
emminent failures about to happen. I've run them for some time with no
crashes.
Cheers;
Jeff
tvn wrote in message <8ks0bs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Many of the apps I ran in KDE crashed ... or freezed, (Netscape
>(especially), Aim, Compupic etc etc) at least 3 -4 times / day. Is there a
>reason or fix for this symtoms ? These apps don't crash on my other
>machine running winnt.
>
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup server
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 03:59:59 +0100
Denis L. Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hello friends.
> I am a newbie at linux. My wish is to start a newsgroup on my server at home
> just like the one that we are viewing now.
> Can I do this on a linux server? Can anyone help me on guidelines on how to
> go about setting up a newgruop server? Any software available?
What do you want to do with it?
Do you want to just hold the newsgroups you and your friends read, or do you
want to handle a fuil newsfeed?
If it's the former, install Leafnode and follow the VERY SIMPLE
instructions.
If it's the latter, use INN. Of course, you'll also need a few gigs of hard
disk space and a very high speed connection to do that.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! |
|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and |
| in | get out the puncture repair kit!" |
| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
==============================================================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wine: ChessMaster 6000 problem
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 04:02:57 +0100
jason varsoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> What's wrong?
Wine isn't mature enough to handle a lot of the more complex windows
software yet. The only thing you can do is keep an eye on updates, try them
out and keep your fingers crossed that one of them'll eventually work.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
| in | suck is probably the day they start making |
| Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
==============================================================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What is winipcfg in Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:47:26 GMT
> In Windows we use "winipcfg" command to find
out the ip addresses of the
> network cards.
>
> How do we do this in Linux?
Use the ifconfig command, on a Red Hat 6.0 system
this is located in /sbin.
This will list all adapters.
Alex Collins
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
